Dr. Deanne (Dee) Taylor |
| Senior Research Adviser, Canadian Health Leadership Network |
Dr. Deanne (Dee) Taylor is the Senior Research Advisor for the Canadian Health Leadership Network, Scientific Director of the Rural Coordination Centre of British Columbia, the Corporate Director of Research for Interior Health Authority, and Adjunct Professor at University of British Columbia, Faculty of Health and Social Development. In all her roles, Dr. Taylor is accountable for developing and maintaining partnerships with academic institutions, health systems, industry and innovation partners across organizations, within British Columbia, nationally and internationally. She leads, cultivates, and facilitates a range of research, innovation and learning health systems activities, enhancing the use of evidence into practice and decision-making, and enabling broad engagement in research, innovation and transformational health leadership. She is an advocate and active role model for scholarly practice, raising the profile and engagement of evidence-informed practice and decision-making, and the implementation of learning health systems locally, provincially and nationally.
Dr. Taylor has a Baccalaureate in Athletic Therapy, a Masters of Disability & Community Studies, a PhD in Community Health Science, a Post-Doctoral Fellowship with the Centre on Aging, Mount Saint Vincent University and completed the Fellowship in Health Systems Transformation from the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta. She has presented at numerous times at local, provincial, national and international conferences and scientific meetings in sociology, gerontology, innovation, learning health systems and health care. She is a principal investigator, co-investigator, and collaborator on a several research and innovation projects from regional to international levels. The focus of these projects ranges from: resident/patient experience, care-giving, family, health and aging, policy, regulations, safety, learning health systems, infection prevention and control, chronic illness, implementation science and health-systems leadership and transformation.